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/ file system : some contents unreadable

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carmima
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/ file system : some contents unreadable

#1 Post by carmima »

hello
I ran out of disk space and then tried to recover, that is free some disk space
in thunar, a right click on the / system folder shows its properties:

188055 items, totalling 8.1 GiB (8,730,678,817 bytes)
(some contents unreadable)

is there a way to know what is unreadable and fix ?
yes, the system is workin but I do not like such a warning/error nessage.

thank you

PS:
5.10.0-15-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.120-1 (2022-06-09) x86_64 GNU/Linux

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Re: / file system : some contents unreadable

#2 Post by Head_on_a_Stick »

I entered "thunar some contents unreadable" into the search box at https://www.startpage.com/ and this was the top result:

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=188017

tl;dr: that message is expected for a non-root user because a non-root user should not be able to read the entire root filesystem.
deadbang

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